Name: Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar 03
Rating: 3.79 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9783770464272

6,447 reviews329 followers

April 11, 2012

This is one of the most perfectly suited endings that I've read this year. Sweet and lovely, with just a touch of sadness, but also very hopeful. I would've happily read several more volumes, but volume three did end up being a good place to stop the story.

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Holly Letson

3,852 reviews528 followers

April 4, 2015

A touching ending to a much-loved series, Saga and Sugar find that twinkles are truly in your heart (with a little help from friends), which helps Sugar to become a full-fledged snow fairy.

Bibliothecat

1,872 reviews82 followers

November 8, 2025

Review for complete series

A Little Snow Fairy Sugar isn't a bad, but it's pretty weak, especially if you are an older reader. This manga is better suited for a young audience, and by that I mean very early teens or even younger. I can love a good middle grade book but some simply feel too juvenile, and this is one of them. This is actually a reread, but I remember not being too excited about this one when I read it as a teen either.

At it's core, it's a cute plot: it's an idyllic little town - very much European style - where a young girl Saga suddenly starts seeing little fairies. Among these, she befriends the hyperactive little snow fairy Sugar, who is trying to fulfil a mission to be able to graduate to a fully matured fairy. Saga is very orderly and correct so there are initially a lot of clashes between her and the chaotic little fairy, but they develop a sweet friendship through which both grow stronger.

It is a sweet, simple and technically wholesome story. It's just told in quite a hectic manner and it doesn't help that I don't actually like Saga. I understand that she and Sugar are polar opposites and thus don't always see eye to eye. Saga also doesn't have a mother anymore and tries to act beyond her years and still grieves her loss deeply. But being such an orderly type of character and having lost her mother doesn't give her a free pass to being rude, because that's exactly how I see her. She gets angry so easily and is constantly shouting at Sugar and scolding her. I do see where she is coming from but most of the time her reactions seem way over the top and simply hearing Sugar out would have made a huge difference.

It's hard to enjoy just a plot if you don't actually like the characters. So, given that this is for readers well below my age, the characters don't appeal to me and the whole thing is a little chaotic, it's really hard for me to say I enjoyed this. There is, of course, also the art - interestingly, this is even the main reason I picked this up. I originally bought this series thinking it was by Koge-Donbo who I really like. But it soon dawned on me that she only made the character designs and the actual manga was drawn by Haruka Aoi who unfortunately does a poor job at mimicking the style. There are a few pretty pictures but the biggest issue are the eyes, they often look as though the individual eyes are looking in opposite directions. It also doesn't help Saga that her face is constantly scrunched up in an angry scowl.

I love Koge-Donbo's art but this is just not it. If neither art nor plot or characters can convince me, I see little reason to hold on to this series any longer. I will say again that I don't think this series is outright bad and I do think younger teen girls - perhaps 8 - 12 years old - might appreciate this and overlook its flaws.

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τλιϓλ

1,043 reviews204 followers

May 27, 2017

Bring back so many memories with this cheerful manga and the fun charming fairies in their adventure, so glad I bought it.

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Jennifer

209 reviews14 followers

May 3, 2015

I loved it : ) its such a cute, funny, and beautiful story about a girl named Saga who meets an apprentice snow fairy named Sugar and she's the only one who can see her and they have lots of little adventures together and look for twinkes to save Sugar's flower, so she can become a full fledge season fairy like her mother : ) I love the sweet relationship between Saga and Sugar and seeing them grow closer to each other throughout the series : ) I love the little twist at the end too, which isn't in the anime, but I won't spoil it here, so you'll just read the series and see for yourself : ) I definitely recommend this manga series for any manga and anime fan, and for any fairy lovers too : )